Bugs for dinner, painting Pakistani bodybuilders, an ancient tomb for bulls and more in today’s daily brief.

Fenerbahce fans light flares during the Europa League Group C soccer match between Fenerbahce and Olympique Marseille at Sukru Saracoglu stadium in Istanbul. (Murad Sezer/Reuters)

A dummy ghost sits in the empty tribune prior to the Europa League Group K soccer match between SK Rapid Wien and Rosenborg BK in Vienna. Rapid Wien must play this match behind closed doors as a result of crowd trouble after their Europa League qualifier at PAOK Salonika in August. (Leonhard Foeger/Reuters)

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man holds a chicken as he performs the Kaparot ritual in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which starts at sundown on Tuesday. Kaparot is an ancient custom connected to Yom Kippur, where white chickens are slaughtered as a symbolic gesture of atonement. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)

A man applies tanning solution onto a participant backstage before the start of a bodybuilding competition in Srinagar, Pakistan. A total of 70 participants are competing in different bodybuilding categories, organizers said. (Fayaz Kabli/Reuters)

Bodybuilders strike a pose during a bodybuilding competition in Srinagar. A total of 70 participants are competing in different bodybuilding categories, organizers said. (Fayaz Kabli/Reuters)

Activists of the WildAid animal rights group are dressed as panda bears as they demonstrate at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. WildAid aimed to call attention on the situation of panda bears that are threatened with extinction. (GettyImages)

A health worker fumigates inside a home in Havana. Cuba conducts regular fumigation inside homes to check the spread of dengue, a mosquito-transmitted virus that causes a fever which can be deadly. (Desmond Boylan/Reuters)

A passenger jumps from a train compartment to another at a railway station during a nationwide strike in Kolkata. Shopkeepers, traders and laborers blocked railway lines and closed markets across India September 20 in a nationwide day of protest against reforms allowing in foreign supermarkets such as Walmart. (Dibyangshu Sarkar/GettyImages)

Devotees carry a statue of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, into the Arabian Sea on the first day of the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai. Ganesh idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing and later immersed in a river or the sea symbolizing a ritual seeing-off of his journey towards his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind. (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)

A journalist looks at the artwork ’99 Cent’ by Andreas Gursky during a media preview of an exhibition at the Museum Kunstpalast in Duesseldorf. The ‘Andreas Gursky’ exhibition, which features some 60 of works by the German photographer, will open from September 23 until January 13, 2013. (Ina Fassbender/Reuters)

A general view shows the main corridor inside the “Serapuem” tomb, near the Saqqara or “Step” Pyramid, south of Cairo. Egypt’s antiquities authority reopened the “Serapeum” and “Akhethotep & Ptahhotep” tombs on Thursday, after the ancient tombs had undergone ten years of renovations, with an estimated cost of 2 million dollars. (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)

An Egyptian archeologist walks next to a tomb at the Serapeum of Saqqara, a vast underground necropolis south of Cairo dedicated to the bulls of Apis, as it reopens to the public after 11 years of renovation. The Serapeum, whose origin dates back to around 1400 BC, was discovered in 1851 by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, founder of the first department of Egyptian antiquities. The site contains huge subterranean galleries in which are contained the large tombs of some 30 sacred bulls, accompanied by steles bearing inscriptions providing information on the reigns under which the animals lived. (Khaled Desouki/GettyImages)

The friends and family of Lance Corporal Duane Groom grieve as his coffin is driven away from the Memorial Garden outside the RAF base at Brize Norton after his repatriation from Afghanistan in Carterton, central England. (Andrew Winning/Reuters)

A Brazilian police sharp-shooter secures a position atop a school building in front of the Rocinha shantytown, where Rio de Janeiro’s government started the installation of the Pacifier Police Unit (UPP) project. Brazilian authorities stepped up a pacification drive in Rio’s largest shantytown Thursday, nearly doubling the police presence in a hillside favela overlooking the city’s most famous beaches. (Antonio Scorza/GettyImages)

A boy holds his surf board next to policemen during the inauguration of the Peacekeeping Unit Program (UPP) in Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro. The occupation of Rocinha, a notorious hillside “favela” that overlooks some of Rio’s swankiest areas, is a crucial part of the city’s preparations to host soccer’s World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics two years later. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)

A woman poses with a locust between her teeth at a discovery lunch in Brussels. Organizers of the event, which included cookery classes, want to draw attention to insects as a source of nutrition. (Francois Lenoir/Reuters)

A billboard advertising cosmetic products is set in front of an office building in Times Square in New York. (Emmanuel Dunand/GettyImages)

Fire burns storage tanks at the Venezuelan Amuay oil refinery El Palito in Puerto Cabello, Carabibo state. According to the Minister of Oil and Mining Rafael Ramirez, a ray ignited two tanks of gasoline of El Palito refinery. (GettyImages)

U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reacts as U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (L) (R-OH) helps hammer in her nail during a ceremony for the Presidential inauguration construction on the west front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney will be sworn in as U.S. President in a private ceremony on Sunday, January 20, 2013, with the official public inauguration taking place the next day at the U.S. Capitol. (Jason Reed/Reuters)

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